validation...

[monkeypants]

hi, i've recently been learning html/xhtml and css on my own. I've put together a small page which is 100% valid xhtml 1.0 transitional when checked against the w3 validator...(i'm also linking to an external style sheet which also validates). It works fine in IE 6 (which is what i designed in), however, it is not displaying properly in navigator and opera 6. My goal was to have the page be friendly to standards compliant browsers by doing this... A friend of mine was making the argument that even though everything validates, it's probably that my code is bad somehow. My response was that by continually validating my work, i was doing everything within my ability to try and ensure that this wouldn't happen. I don't know what else to go by... My question is this: is it possible (and how likely is it) that even if my code validates there are still bugs, or is it more likely to be a problem related to the poor implementations of a specific browser? (which is what i think the problem is!) thx for any feedback

 

[bfjacobs]

The difference is in the way the browsers look at the html and css. I have found that you normally need to have a different style sheet for netscape, which usually will work in Opera.

I set mine up so that Netscape 6.2, IE 5 and Opera all look pretty much as I want them to. I have two different style sheets, one for IE and one for Netscape and then depending on the site, I also have them set for different screen resolutions.